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Yeah, it is not so much how you start but how you want to approach the ball and then working backwards to your ready position to make the option available.

He is tall so keep the ball low with heavy spin.

He was an SP hitter and the serving tactics are different, but that said, short serving was typically a way for the loopers to get balls to loop, but the techniques for aggressive countering and blocking are so much better today that serving short is really just one more strategy for winning points.

The simplest way to respond to Danny is that the long serve has always been in play. The short push is also still extremely effective, it is the short sidespin serve that is an endangered species.

Yes. In that particular club, the owner and main financer was the person keeping our score in the beginning of the match (Will Shortz). He has two large screen TVs installed with Ipads for keeping score and relaying to the screens as those are the two main show tables you see in that video...

Lots of my matches are in competition, we just don't have score keepers in the US. That day, our assigned table was used so they moved us to a main table to speed up the group.

Because I am tall and I am a backhand player. It's actually a good shot if you commit to it. If you do a basic loop, you run into the problem of a counter or a block wide, but if you loop the ball properly, most people will block the ball back to you. For example, here...

It actually depends on your body position, but you and Takkyu must mean inside out, as down the line means playing into the backhand while inside out/cross court is playing into the forehand. When I had no forehand or didn't trust my forehand against better players, this was how I played often...

Yes, but that is worth it if it is a quality shot. It is the same thing as pivoting to play a forehand - if it is not a quality shot, then you have exposed your wide forehand. If you have a real good backhand and can kill the ball both down the line from the forehand into the backhand or inside...

Why you can and should pivot on easy balls - they are EASY balls. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9e8N0DIltW8&feature=youtu.be&t=713 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9e8N0DIltW8&feature=youtu.be&t=805 And as for why you have to win the point...

Nothing wrong with hitting backhands from the forehand side if your backhand is a quality shot. The main issue is whether your backhand can track tricky balls. The problem with not pivoting is the amount of risk when a ball shows up where you do not expect and you are playing a backhand...

If you are on TTEdge and see ETTS 34, which is basically an analysis of how I use those shots, you will see how often I get it wrong. The main thing is that you have to know what you served, what the reasonable response is, and what the common mistakes are off the return as your opponent...

Knee and weight issues prevent you from pivoting a lot. But they are not a strong reason not to pivot on easy balls. Using your backhand is asking for trouble especially if you play matches that mean something to you.

Pivoting to kill easy balls is easy. Stop wasting time and do it. Pivoting to kill or loop tricky balls is hard work. That's an entirely different story and is optional. You should not be playing shots that result in you having to do a crossover when the ball is easy.

The thing about serve variation and serve location is really about practice. The real reason why people play a certain way, unless they are anomalies, is that it is related to how they practice or how they feel comfortable playing the next balls. Most people who serve to the backhand want the...

The other point that I wanted to make is that this is partly the truth, but also not always true. I remember someone telling me yesterday that bad technique is better than no technique, and I said this is true, but only if you are selecting and mastering the bad technique. As you pointed out...

Given how you have described your game in the past, I would never have known you play this well!

I think wturber deserves more credit, but I have thought the same way often even before I read his post. Think about it - here is an actual match score from the biggest upset of my tournament matches: 12-10, 4-11, 11-8,5-11, 12-10. My opponent scored more points but lost the match because he...

FZD's knee was clearly bothering him. I think after trying to win playing a complete game, he realized he needed to take more risks. Ma Long was surprised and then adapted to take advantage in the 6th game.

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